JOURNAL OF QUJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY ›› 2018, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 38-44.

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Contracts Psychology and Poverty Trend of Kunming from Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China——Based on Observation of 279 Land Contracts

Zhang Lihong   

  1. School of Marxism Studies, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan, 650221 China
  • Received:2017-08-16 Online:2018-01-26

Abstract: Real estate contracts reflect the change of land ownership and transition of trade manner in social progress. They have become the milestone of investigating social economic history. The book named as Collection and Arrangement of legal Contracts and Documents Held in Yunnan Province Library is one of the most important literature of legal contracts and documents found in Yunnan from Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. Real estate contracts found in this book have profound influence on studying social economic history of Kunming of that time. The study finds that real estate trading has the characteristics of countryside land ownership at the beginning of Qing Dynasty, but it goes to the market tendency starting from the year of the Republic of China. In the meantime, real estate contracts then have fixed form and they have become legal documents since the year of the Republic of China.

Key words: land contract, psychology, poverty, Kunming, from Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China

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